Letter to the editor: Benghazi hearing turns into a 'whimper'

House Oversight Committee Chairman Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Calif., displays a letter of praise from President Obama to Gregory Hicks, former deputy chief of mission in Libya, number two in rank to slain U.S. Ambassador Christopher Stevens, during a House Oversight Committee hearing about last year's deadly assault on the U.S. diplomatic mission in Benghazi, Libya, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, May 8, 2013.

Republicans have been setting the stage for the Benghazi hearing for months by manufacturing absurd charges of cover-up and dishonesty by the Obama administration. Sen. Lindsey Graham ramped up the rhetoric the day before the hearings by saying the "dam" was about to break with new revelations supporting Republicans' wild accusations about cover-ups and intrigue.

Mike Huckabee and Bush's former United Nations Ambassador John Bolton predicted President Obama will not fill out his second term, suggesting he will be impeached over this incident. Our own Congressman Steve King weighed in with his normal outrageous exaggeration by saying Benghazi will be 10 times bigger than Watergate and Iran Contra combined. Congressman Darrell Issa accused former Secretary of State Clinton of lying about Benghazi.

The promised colossal list of damaging new revelations amounted to a whimper. There was absolutely nothing new revealed.

Recall that Gov. Romney was crushed in the presidential debates when President Obama corrected Romney's false assertion that the president never referred to Benghazi as a terrorist attack. Apparently, the Republicans didn't learn a thing from that loss and intend to persist in their reckless and futile accusations about the Benghazi attacks for political gain.

- Rick Smith, Urbandale

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Letter to the editor: Benghazi hearing turns into a 'whimper'

Republicans have been setting the stage for the Benghazi hearing for months by manufacturing absurd charges of cover-up and dishonesty by the Obama administration. Sen. Lindsey Graham ramped up the